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Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs I consecrate to thee.

Walter Savage Landor

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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
Poet
Writer
Warwick
Warwickshire
Sighs
Every
Grace
Thine
Never
Virtue
Weep
Eyes
Race
Sigh
Eye
Thee
Avails
Night
Rose
Wakeful
Form
Divine
Consecrate
May
Memories

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